"I will go anywhere to make Jesus known and loved."
For us migrants, for those far from home, for us who must bring Jesus everywhere.
✝ Day 1 - November 4 - For Migrants and Immigrants
"She is patron of migrants - first citizen saint who was immigrant."
Reflection - St. Frances Cabrini, Italian immigrant to America, who cared for Italian immigrants despised, poor. For us migrants, working far from home, in Gulf, in cities, feeling foreign, despised - Cabrini is mother of migrants who understands. For us who despise migrants, who close hearts to strangers - Cabrini says I will go anywhere to make Jesus known, especially to migrants forgotten. Our families migrated for work, we know pain of being stranger.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, Mother of migrants, patron of immigrants, thou who didst leave home to serve migrants, obtain for us migrants, for us far from home, protection, dignity, work, and for us who receive migrants grace to welcome Christ in stranger.
(State your intentions here... for migrants and us)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O God who didst make Cabrini mother of migrants, through her grant welcome to migrants and protection to us migrants. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 2 - November 5 - For Sacred Heart - Her Love
"Her institute was Missionaries of Sacred Heart - Heart of Jesus was her all."
Reflection - Cabrini's order - Missionaries of Sacred Heart - her devotion was Sacred Heart. For us whose hearts cold, who need fire - Sacred Heart is fire that drove Cabrini across ocean 23 times. For us who fear to go anywhere for Jesus - Cabrini says I will go anywhere to make Jesus known and loved because Sacred Heart pushes. Our hearts must be on fire like Sacred Heart to go anywhere for family, for Church.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, apostle of Sacred Heart, thou who didst burn with Heart of Jesus, obtain for us cold hearts fire of Sacred Heart, that we may say with thee I will go anywhere to make Jesus known and loved.
(State your intentions here... for fire of Sacred Heart)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O Sacred Heart burning with love, through St. Cabrini inflame our hearts. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 3 - November 6 - For Children and Orphans
"She built orphanages, schools for children of immigrants."
Reflection - Cabrini built 67 institutions - orphanages, schools, hospitals for immigrant children left alone. For us who neglect children, who leave children for work, whose children orphans while parents alive - Cabrini mother of orphans shows children need home. For us parents working far - entrust children to Cabrini, she will mother them. For us who can help orphans - help as Cabrini did, give them home.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, Mother of orphans and children, thou who didst build homes for immigrant children alone, obtain for us children, for our children far from us, for orphans, protection, education, home, and for us grace to mother children as thou didst.
(State your intentions here... for children and orphans)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O Jesus Lover of children, through St. Cabrini mother of orphans, protect children. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 4 - November 7 - For Courage to Go Anywhere
"I will go anywhere - even to China though Pope sent to West."
Reflection - Cabrini wanted to go to China as missionary, Pope Leo XIII said not to East but to West to Italian immigrants in America. She obeyed and went anywhere. For us who want China but God sends West - obey like Cabrini. For us who fear to go anywhere - new place, new job, difficult mission - Cabrini says I will go anywhere if Jesus known. Our families need courage to go anywhere God sends.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, who didst say I will go anywhere to make Jesus known, though wanting China went to America in obedience, obtain for us courage to go anywhere God sends, even if not our plan, to make Jesus known and loved.
(State your intentions here... for courage to go anywhere)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O God who sendest us anywhere, through St. Cabrini give us courage to go. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 5 - November 8 - For Crossing Oceans 23 Times
"She crossed ocean 23 times without fear because Jesus was captain."
Reflection - Cabrini crossed Atlantic 23 times by ship, fragile woman, seasick, yet without fear because Jesus captain. For us who cross oceans for work - Gulf, America, Europe - with fear, Cabrini crossed 23 times with Jesus as captain. For us who fear to cross small obstacles - family problems, debts - Cabrini says if Jesus captain, no fear. Our life is ocean crossing, Jesus must be captain.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, thou who didst cross ocean 23 times with Jesus as captain, obtain for us who cross oceans, who face seas of life, fearlessness because Jesus is our captain, and safe voyage to Heaven.
(State your intentions here... for our journeys)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O Jesus Captain of our ship, through St. Cabrini who crossed oceans with Thee, bring us safe to Heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 6 - November 9 - For Building - 67 Institutions
"She built - not for self but for Jesus and migrants."
Reflection - Cabrini built 67 institutions - hospitals, schools, orphanages - with no money, only faith. For us who say we cannot build - no money - Cabrini built with faith. For us who build for self - big houses while migrants have no home - Cabrini built for others. Our families must build not only houses but homes for others, institutions of love. What we build for Jesus lasts.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, builder, thou who didst build 67 homes for Jesus in migrants with faith alone, obtain for us grace to build not for self but for Jesus, to build with faith what seems impossible, and to build homes of love.
(State your intentions here... for building for Jesus)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O Divine Builder, through St. Cabrini builder, teach us to build for Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 7 - November 10 - For Overcoming Obstacles
"Fragile, sickly, yet she moved mountains - because Jesus moved them."
Reflection - Cabrini was small, sickly, fragile, told she would die young, yet moved mountains - 67 institutions, across world. For us who say we are small, sick, cannot do great things - Cabrini fragile moved mountains because Jesus moved them through her. For us who face mountains - debts, family problems, immigration papers - fragile Cabrini moves mountains still through prayer. Our fragility is not obstacle when Jesus is strength.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, fragile yet mountain mover, thou who though sickly did great things because Jesus was strength, obtain for us who feel small, sick, fragile, grace to move mountains in our lives through Jesus who moves them through us.
(State your intentions here... for mountains to move)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O Mountain Mover, through fragile St. Cabrini move our mountains. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 8 - November 11 - For Love of Immigrants Despite Rejection
"She loved immigrants though they and Americans rejected her at first."
Reflection - Cabrini was rejected - Archbishop of New York first refused her, immigrants suspicious. Yet she loved them still. For us rejected when we try to help - family rejects, community rejects - love still like Cabrini. For us immigrants rejected in foreign land - Cabrini rejected too, she understands. Her love persisted until rejection became love. Our love must persist despite rejection.
Prayer: O St. Frances Cabrini, who didst love though rejected, obtain for us when rejected in trying to do good, grace to love still, to persist, and for us immigrants who feel rejected grace to know we have Mother who was rejected and now loves us from Heaven.
(State your intentions here... for love despite rejection)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O Rejected Jesus, through St. Cabrini rejected yet loving, teach us to love when rejected. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✝ Day 9 - November 12 - For First American Citizen Saint - Final
"First American citizen saint - immigrant who became citizen of Heaven and America."
Reflection - Final day - Cabrini first American citizen saint, immigrant who became citizen of America and citizen of Heaven. For us immigrants seeking citizenship - earthly and heavenly - Cabrini shows way: love new land, serve, become citizen through service. For us at end of novena - we ask all favors, especially for immigrants, for citizenship, for papers, for home, and for heavenly citizenship. Immigrant Cabrini now helps immigrants enter Heaven's citizenship.
Prayer: O St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American citizen saint, immigrant who became citizen of Heaven and America, on this final day obtain for us all favors we asked, especially for migrants, for citizenship earthly and heavenly, for papers, for homes, and for us grace to become citizens of Heaven as thou art, where no one is immigrant but all are home.
(State your intentions here... our most important intentions, especially for migrants and citizenship)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Let Us Pray: O God who didst make immigrant Cabrini first citizen saint of America, grant through her our intentions, especially for migrants, and grace of citizenship in Heaven where we will be home forever. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini - Pray for us!
This novena is a private devotion, prayed in communion with the Catholic Church, asking for intercession through the saints, always subject to God's will and the teachings of the Magisterium. Nihil obstat.
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